The grievance, victim culture that increasingly defines the left has long been one of its least attractive features. The problem is that in terms of free speech, education and media bias some on the right are starting to pull out the victim card too. What a shame.

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I have written before that many universities have focused on creating true diversity of skin pigments and reproductive plumbing among their students but in their primary world of ideas, have created an intellectual monoculture. If you don't believe it, check out this quote from a Yale dean in the Yale Daily News.

The Conservative Party of Canada fired off a provocative fundraising appeal to supporters on Tuesday, taking a shot at the “urban media elite” in Ottawa.
The Conservative party has nearly mastered fundraising tactics as it continues to significantly outpace the federal Liberals and NDP in value of donations in the lead-up to an expected October 2015 federal election.

Former Canadian Forces general Andrew Leslie will carry the Liberal banner in Orléans in next year’s federal election, but his nomination Saturday was marred by a chaotic and divisive scene in which police had to break up a noisy scuffle.
Leslie, an adviser to Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, was acclaimed by Liberals in Ottawa-Orléans as their candidate for the 2015 election, when the riding will be known simply as Orléans.

Liberal government changes to the Conservatives’ incendiary anti-terrorism law could face a bumpy trip through the Conservative-controlled Senate.
“There may be some things that Mr. Trudeau and some of his colleagues are very supportive of, but they may be matters that an overwhelming majority of Canadians are not comfortable with,” said Conservative Sen. Bob Runciman, who sponsored the controversial Bill C-51 national security legislation in the upper chamber in May.

A group that is encouraging strategic voting to keep Stephen Harper’s Conservatives from winning another mandate is targeting the Ottawa-area riding of Orléans and urging voters to toss out incumbent Royal Galipeau.
Although it doesn’t endorse specific candidates, the Ottawa Action Network Vote Smart Orléans says the Liberals are the best positioned to knock over Galipeau, who has represented the riding since 2006.

TORONTO – The Conservatives claim a Toronto Liberal candidate is making misleading claims about their citizenship reforms in Russian-language flyers distributed to voters this week.
Russian-language pamphlets for York-Centre Liberal candidate Michael Levitt misrepresent the impact of Bill C-24, the Conservatives say.
“Our campaign is very disappointed that this kind of disinformation and scaremongering is being pushed by our opponents,” said Georganne Burke, campaign manager of York-Centre Conservative candidate Mark Adler.